Records show a Labor Department component that enforces equal employment opportunity laws is developing a plan to reduce its workforce by 90 percent.
By Emily Davies, Jeff Stein and Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, February 26 2025
Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is barreling toward a fresh round of firings, preparing to strike entire categories of jobs from the federal workforce as it escalates the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the bureaucracy.
The General Services Administration told its staff in an email that terminations are imminent. Social Security Administration leadership is under instruction to swiftly produce plans to cut its staff by half, according to two employees at the agency who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.And an office within the Labor Department that enforces equal employment opportunity laws is developing a plan to reduce its workforce by 90 percent, an internal document shows.
Meanwhile, leaders of some agencies have received a list of federal leases being terminated, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post, upending return-to-work plans and potentially leading to attrition.
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